"Little Fuzzy" by H. Beam Piper is a science fiction novel published in 1962. On the planet Zarathustra, prospector Jack Holloway discovers a small, furry species that may be sapient. When the powerful Chartered Zarathustra Company realizes that recognizing the Fuzzies as intelligent beings would strip away their control of the planet's resources, they move to prove otherwise. The question of the Fuzzies' sapience must be settled in court, with the fate of an entire species hanging in the balance. (This is an automatically generated summary.)